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Post by Admin on Dec 30, 2017 17:03:48 GMT -7
January 2nd GLA Election Hearing cancelled.... The court hearing scheduled for January 2nd, 2018 in Livingston has been cancelled. According to the official GLA website "The Jan. 2 hearing on the Rakela restraining order is canceled because negotiations are underway".
The Forum has long believed that shadow Board members have colluded with Val O'Connell regarding the 2017 annual election. Val openly took credit for writing the 2 inch thick brief and guiding the process in the court system. The GLA Board speaks with two voices regarding the 2017 election. One voice wants to follow the covenants. The other voice wants more CUT members on the Board at any cost. As such it is difficult for any attorney to represent the GLA Board. Whose side should he take?
Landowners have lost tens of thousands of dollars in legal costs to cover the multitude of lawsuits filed by the O'Connells. They lost when the 2016 election was forced into a recount and the results were "recalculated". They lost again when the 2017 annual election was postponed. What will they lose this time?
Maybe it is time to dissolve an association or time for landowners to look for something better like an RSID and County Zoning.
UPDATE: December 31st, 2017 - The GLA Board was incorrect in stating on their website that the January 2nd hearing was cancelled. The hearing is "stayed" or postponed until the result of the negotiations with Rakela and in the shadows, Val O'Connell are determined.
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chris
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Post by chris on Dec 30, 2017 21:23:59 GMT -7
Way overdue! Let's get it done ASAP!
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angel
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Post by angel on Jan 2, 2018 11:33:18 GMT -7
Absolutely time to clean house and absolve the GLA.
It's not working. Definitely not user-friendly.
I refuse to pay more money into frivolous lawsuits and in-fighting between the CUT and GLA.
Let's start the new year right and move forward with something that works.
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Post by Admin on Jan 2, 2018 20:43:57 GMT -7
It looks like the GLA Board is ready to fold and give Rakela and CUT what they want; a new election with three CUT candidates for South Glastonbury. We will know more when the next monthly GLA Board meeting takes place.
To the best of our knowledge landowners have paid over $10,000.00 in legal fees to date for the Rakela lawsuit. The Board will use this expense as a major reason as to why they should settle out of court with Rakela and crew. Landowners will be told that to continue to abide by the Covenants and push the issue through the court system will bankrupt the GLA.
If the GLA Board settles then people who do not obey the Covenants will be rewarded. Ironically the rule of law will be discarded because it was deemed too expensive to follow.
Landowners should seriously consider if they wish to continue funding a dysfunctional GLA Board that will not abide by or enforce the Covenants. Refusing to pay their annual dues in January would be an appropriate act of civil disobedience. Landowners may also consider asking the GLA to remove their property from the organization as well.
Enough is enough. It is time to move on to something better, less costly and more effective than our current GLA landowners association.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2018 7:07:27 GMT -7
Let’s be clear here. You can’t paint the whole Board as dysfunctional only some. There has been a minority on the Board who have worked extremely hard to make it function like a Board should function. As I have said many times before, most of the problems in this Association, and between landowners, have come from Board decisions when they do not follow our governing documents. And neither will some of the candidates with an ideological bent follow our governing documents.
These previous decisions have brought about conflicts between landowners and rebellion from landowners when the new Board members try and hold “the old time” Board members accountable to our governing documents!!
You have professionals on the Board now who are bringing their expertise from outside the bubble of Glastonbury. Or should I say “outside the dome?” There has been a lot of hard work done by some of these knowledgeable people and they have shown great patience with the others that do not have knowledge of how a “real” Board should work other than “what they’ve always done.”
When I talk with family and friends about some of the things this and previous Boards have done they can hardly believe it. Our one son has been on his HOA’s Board for many terms and he is astonished at the things I tell him. Especially concerning all the lawsuits, and this latest one by Rakela. He agreed with me that property values are damaged and most likely will not recover until there is a major change.
And as I told him there are those running that want to continue on with the old ways of dysfunctional governance by disregarding our governing documents, rampant favortism, major conflicts of interest and financial mismanagement. This is either out of ignorance, ideology, control or heaven help us all of it!! Even when shown the error in their thinking they will not change their mind, you cannot “reason” with these people. They revert to turning fact into opinion thereby exposing their ignorance by not knowing the difference!
SO, PLEASE CLARIFY....NOT ALL BOARD MEMBERS ARE DYSFUNCTIONAL JUST THE ONES THAT HOLD THE MAJORITY AND VOTE FROM THE POSITION OF GROUP THINK AND NOT FOR AN EFFECTIVE AND EFFICIENT ASSOCIATION. THEY VOTE EMOTIONALLY NOT ECONOMICALLY NOR ACCORDING TO BEST BUSINESS PRACTICES.
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